Rabbit Ear Village is very small, with only twenty or thirty households.
In less than half an hour, the whole village knew that Shen Man's happy occasion had turned into a funeral.
The village chief glared fiercely at Shen Man with a dark expression.
"Have you forgotten about Xiaoying? I told you not to mess around with all that nonsense, but you insisted on hiring someone to [clean up], and now someone's dead. Are you happy now?!"
Shen Manshu lowered her head and muttered to herself in a wronged tone.
“It’s not like I didn’t give her money. It’s all her fault for being so foolish. She was just being played by someone. Did she have to commit suicide?”
After hearing that, if I weren't tied up, I would have wanted to go over and slap her twice.
However, upon seeing the double-barreled shotgun in the hand of the person next to him, his eyes instantly cleared.
If you dare to do anything reckless, Luo Tianhe and I will go down and join Bai Su in crossing the Bridge of Helplessness.
Although we are in an illusion now, I noticed from the fight that we feel pain and get hurt.
I think if we really die here, we'll never be able to go back to reality.
The village chief gave me and Luo Tianhe a deep look: "Take you two young brothers to have some tea."
Tea? What kind of tea should we drink at this time?
That sickle was practically at my neck, what could I say?
All I can say is thank you, Uncle. I just love drinking tea!
After being pushed into a dark warehouse, the village chief asked me what my family did for a living.
He even claimed to have a wide network of connections and asked if I needed his help to assist my family.
I know perfectly well what's going on.
He's afraid I'll expose those shameful things, so he's trying to threaten me with my family to shut me up.
But my family members are all dead long ago, so what am I afraid of?
But I didn't say that; instead, I made up a family background.
She also emphasized that although my family is not a wealthy or powerful family, we have a large extended family of relatives who usually look after each other.
If the village chief knew I was a helpless, lonely person, he might just kill me.
By giving myself a different identity, I might make him more wary and less likely to harm me, thus giving myself a better chance of survival.
Seeing that he hadn't gotten anything useful out of me, the village chief didn't say anything more and turned to leave.
When the door opened again, Luo Tianhe was thrown in, but the ropes binding him had been untied.
"Are you alright?" I asked, looking at his face, which was swollen like a pig's head.
Do I look like I'm alright?
Luo Tianhe sat down next to me, took out a crumpled cigarette from his pocket, lit it, took a puff, and immediately exhaled.
"It has no taste!"
When I saw him about to light a cigarette, put it on the ground, and inhale through his nose, I quickly stopped him: "If you keep inhaling, you'll really turn into a ghost!"
Luo Tianhe suddenly realized what was happening, took a deep breath, but the movement aggravated the wound on his face, causing him to howl in pain.
"Dude, I don't even know if I'm still alive, how can I still feel pain?"
I said that not only do we know the pain, but if we really die here, we probably won't be able to return to reality.
"No...no way...right?"
Luo Tianhe's mouth gaped open: "Aren't we hallucinating?"
I nodded: "Yes, haven't you heard of people who dream and then can't wake up? Our situation is similar to that."
"Damn it!"
Luo Tianhe cursed with lingering fear, "I thought I wouldn't die in the illusion, so I kept charging forward. When I saw that shotgun pointed at my forehead just now, if I hadn't instinctively stopped, I would have really died!"
I said, "Let's not talk about these things for now. The important thing is to find a way to snatch the [Yin Sha Copper Bell] from the long-haired man and bury it in the ground."
Now that Bai Su is dead, we're in an illusion, and who knows what will happen next.
"Rob? How do you rob it?"
Luo Tianhe shook his head: "There's a guy with a gun guarding outside. Although we've never fought, you can tell from the way he holds the gun that he's definitely an old hunter. I'm afraid he'll mistake me for a wild boar as soon as I step outside."
After saying that, he sighed again: "It's all my fault for being too righteous. Why did I act impulsively!"
I looked at him strangely. Was he blaming himself or boasting?
As we were talking, a chilling sound suddenly entered my ears.
It sounded like someone was scraping the wall hard with their fingernails.
"Creak—"
"Creak—"
Each strike felt like a saw being pulled back and forth on a person's nerves.
"Shh!"
I quickly gestured for Luo Tianhe to be quiet, and at the same time pointed to the top of my head.
"What's wrong?"
Luo Tianhe quickly lowered his voice, his eyes unconsciously glancing upwards.
I said, "It feels like something is crawling on our heads."
Luo Tian listened carefully for a while, then nodded and said, "I heard it, it's probably a stray cat."
A stray cat?
I pondered to myself.
The sound did indeed resemble claws scratching at a wall.
But we were in an abandoned granary, surrounded by hard cement walls. What kind of wild cat's claws could make such a loud noise on it?
Moreover, the sound grew louder and the rhythm became more rapid.
The thing was rapidly approaching us through the ventilation window above our heads.
Although it was pitch black and I couldn't see anything, I could clearly feel a pair of eyes staring intently at us from the darkness.
"Dude, that...that thing looks like it's come in."
Luo Tianhe was so nervous that he kept swallowing, and his body unconsciously leaned closer to me.
"Don't speak!"
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